期刊名称：Finante - provocarile viitorului (Finance - Challenges of the Future)
印刷版ISSN：1583-3712
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：16
页码：16-35
出版社：University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
摘要：This article reveals the real goals of the Eastern Partnership. Consequently, it will be an attempt to prove that the legendary choice of Ukraine between Russia and the European Union is actually a zero-sum choice. On one side, ‘the European choice’ means modernization (i.e. westernization) of politics, economy, society at a huge - not only financial – expense, according to EU principles. The modernization shall lead to structural transformations an economy of I Industrial Revolution character (a raw material- and energy-consuming economy) towards modern economy. This will also entail social costs of reconstructing the mentality of a society (both of those ruling and ruled). On the other side, remaining under Russian influence means for Ukraine a continuation of the status quo, that is vegetating not requiring, nonetheless, neither new outlays nor new pains or sacrifices. Undoubtedly, the conscious choice of the first option demands a consensus of the nation and its leading elite.
关键词：European Union; European neighbors; Russia; Ukraine; membership; acquis communautaire
